The Race for Diamonds: NJDEP VS. EPA by Zachary ValbrunSite Description: The Environmental Site I have chosen is the lower stretch of the Passaic River located in Northeast New Jersey. This part of the river starts around Belleville and ends in front of Newark Bay,...
Get the Frack Out
“Get the Frack Out”:Environmental and Economic Implications of Hydraulic Fracturing in Bradford County, PA by Roy SamuelSite Description: The Marcellus Shale is a region that extends as far north as upstate New York, through Pennsylvania to West Virginia, and as far...
Filthadelphia
They Call It Filthadelphia:How “Cash for Trash” Programs Abused Philadelphia’s Lower Class by Juli MatlackSite Description: Philadelphia is notorious for being dirty. The nickname “Filthadelphia” was born based on its overwhelming amount of trash and litter throughout...
Newark’s Ironbound
Newark’s Ironbound Community Loses Against Incinerator by Arqum MasoodSite Description: The site I am focusing on is a garbage incinerator in Newark’s Ironbound area. The garbage incinerator is run by a company called Covanta, which launched its garbage incineration...
Open Windows Without Clean Air
Open Windows Without Clean Air:We Need to Do More for the Port of Elizabeth’s Air Pollution Problem by Sonia LenahanSite Description: The site I am covering is called “The Port Neighborhood” of Elizabeth, NJ. The neighborhood is only a 10 minute drive from my house,...
Capped and Filled
Capped and Filled:How one New Jersey town closed the last Landfill in the Meadowlands by Angel HarewoodSite Description: Keegan Landfill is in Kearny, New Jersey, and owned and operated by New Jersey Sports and Exhibition Authority. This is one of the last remaining...
Pollution Solution
Are Parks Along Newtown Creek a Pollution Solution, or Another Problem? by Jozy BentleySite Description: Newtown Creek is a 3.5-mile body of water that runs along the border between Brooklyn and Queens in New York City. For over 150 years this creek has been labeled...
Agent Orange Production
Agent Orange: Environmental Injustice at Home and Abroad by Susan CohenSite Description: As a historian interested in American foreign affairs and legal history, researching the use of Agent Orange is an interesting and relevant way to connect foreign policy and law....
Blinded by the Apocalypse
Blinded by the Apocalypse: Carl Sagan and Nuclear Winter by Kurt WeinsteinSite Description: I am aspiring to an academic career because I have an insatiable curiosity. I have found science and history to be fundamental disciplines in answering my questions about the...
Tell Me About Your Nuclear Experiences
Tell Me About Your Nuclear Experiences: Blaming American Imperialism and Military For Nuclear Injustice in the Pacific by Zach Jellison Site Description: My research is focused on three different atolls in the Pacific. The first is Johnston Atoll, which is locate...